Book description
Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones argue that leaders don’t become great by aspiring to a list of universal character traits. Rather, effective leaders are authentic: they deploy individual strengths to engage followers’ hearts, minds, and souls. They are skillful at consistently being themselves, even as they alter their behaviors to respond effectively in changing contexts.
In this lively and practical book, Goffee and Jones draw from extensive research to reveal how to hone and deploy one’s unique leadership assets while managing the inherent tensions at the heart of successful leadership: showing emotion and withholding it, getting close to followers while keeping distance, and maintaining individuality while “conforming enough.” Underscoring the social nature of leadership, the book also explores how leaders can remain attuned to the needs and expectations of followers.
Why Should Anyone Be Led By You? will forever change how we view, develop, and practice the art of leadership, wherever we live and work.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Dedication
- INTRODUCTION
- ONE: Be Yourself— More—with Skill
- TWO: Know and Show Yourself—Enough
- THREE: Take Personal Risks
- FOUR: Read—and Rewrite— the Context
- FIVE: Remain Authentic— but Conform Enough
- SIX: Manage Social Distance
- SEVEN: Communicate—with Care
- EIGHT: Authentic Followership
- NINE: The Price and Prize of Leadership
- APPENDIX A
- APPENDIX B
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Product information
- Title: Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?: What It Takes To Be An Authentic Leader
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2006
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781578519712
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